Lets-drive: Driving in a crowd by learning from tree search

P Cai, Y Luo, A Saxena, D Hsu, WS Lee - arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.12197, 2019 - arxiv.org
Autonomous driving in a crowded environment, eg, a busy traffic intersection, is an unsolved
challenge for robotics. The robot vehicle must contend with a dynamic and partially …

Leader: Learning attention over driving behaviors for planning under uncertainty

MH Danesh, P Cai, D Hsu - Conference on robot learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Uncertainty in human behaviors poses a significant challenge to autonomous driving in
crowded urban environments. The partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) …

Closing the planning–learning loop with application to autonomous driving

P Cai, D Hsu - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Real-time planning under uncertainty is critical for robots operating in complex dynamic
environments. Consider, for example, an autonomous robot vehicle driving in dense …

Carl-lead: Lidar-based end-to-end autonomous driving with contrastive deep reinforcement learning

P Cai, S Wang, H Wang, M Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.08473, 2021 - arxiv.org
Autonomous driving in urban crowds at unregulated intersections is challenging, where
dynamic occlusions and uncertain behaviors of other vehicles should be carefully …

Summit: A simulator for urban driving in massive mixed traffic

P Cai, Y Lee, Y Luo, D Hsu - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous driving in an unregulated urban crowd is an outstanding challenge, especially,
in the presence of many aggressive, high-speed traffic participants. This paper presents …

Towards learning-based planning: The nuPlan benchmark for real-world autonomous driving

N Karnchanachari, D Geromichalos, KS Tan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Machine Learning (ML) has replaced traditional handcrafted methods for perception and
prediction in autonomous vehicles. Yet for the equally important planning task, the adoption …

Vadv2: End-to-end vectorized autonomous driving via probabilistic planning

S Chen, B Jiang, H Gao, B Liao, Q Xu, Q Zhang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Learning a human-like driving policy from large-scale driving demonstrations is promising,
but the uncertainty and non-deterministic nature of planning make it challenging. In this …

Affordance-based reinforcement learning for urban driving

T Agarwal, H Arora, J Schneider - arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.05970, 2021 - arxiv.org
Traditional autonomous vehicle pipelines that follow a modular approach have been very
successful in the past both in academia and industry, which has led to autonomy deployed …

iplan: Intent-aware planning in heterogeneous traffic via distributed multi-agent reinforcement learning

X Wu, R Chandra, T Guan, AS Bedi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Navigating safely and efficiently in dense and heterogeneous traffic scenarios is challenging
for autonomous vehicles (AVs) due to their inability to infer the behaviors or intentions of …

Socially aware crowd navigation with multimodal pedestrian trajectory prediction for autonomous vehicles

K Li, M Shan, K Narula, S Worrall… - 2020 IEEE 23rd …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Seamlessly operating an autonomous vehicles in a crowded pedestrian environment is a
very challenging task. This is because human movement and interactions are very hard to …